Brian Siddhatha Ingle ND., DO., RSME, CHSE

Brian is a licensed Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and a Naturopath. He is a certified Hanna Somatic Educator, a Somatic Yoga teacher, a practitioner of the Feldenkrais method, and an aqua bodyworker. Brian is a pioneer in the field of Somatic Education and he brought Hanna Somatics to Ireland.For more than 30 years, Brian has been inquiring into authentic systems of self-healing, movement and personal development. He has a background in Ayurvedic Medicine, Vedic Astrology and has been based in India since 1995. His life in India started in Lucknow, in service to Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji), for whom Brian was the osteopath.
Brian is a graduate of the British College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training. He is the founder of the Ingle Institute for Somatic Education. Together with his team, Brian offers workshops and professional trainings all over the world, including India, Europe and Russian-speaking countries. His work takes him traveling extensively, sharing his passion for embodied movement as a vehicle to greater freedom. Brian has a great love for adventure and movement in nature, such as surf kayaking, ocean swimming and Somatic running. He is also a singer-song writer and plays a mean guitar.

Gayatri Maya Andersson-Schriefer, BSc.Ed., MSME, CHSE

Gayatri is a board member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) and a registered master somatic movement educator (MSME). She is a certified clinical Hanna Somatic Educator (CHSE), an Equine Hanna Somatic Educator and a graduate of The Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in California, USA. Gayatri holds a bachelor’s degree in Education (BScED) with the focus on health promotion, education and kinaesthetic learning. She is a co-founder of Living Somatics and has brought Hanna Somatics to Sweden. Together with her team, she also introduced the work to the Russian speaking countries. Gayatri is passionate about making Somatic disciplines available to the world, and to connect and grow the global somatic community. She has been a co-host of the virtual Somatic Movement Summit 2020-2023.  Gayatri now lives in Sweden and consults clients internationally, and teaches practitioner trainings and workshops in-house and online. Additionally, she has been facilitating women’s circles for 20 years and co-facilitates women’s leadership programs with her sister Jahanavi Schriefer.
Over the course of her adult life Gayatri has travelled the world studying somatic movement and spiritual methods, including Hanna Somatics, Equine Somatics, the Feldenkrais Method®, Watsu, Body Mind Centering®, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Qi-gong, martial arts, several styles of yoga, dance, meditation, energy healing work, and Native American tracking.

Gayatri’s mission is to offer pathways to greater self-connection, transformation and elevation in the somatic lived experience. She is a firm believer that each person is self-responsible, self-regulating and self-healing. Through her facilitations Gayatri creates a field of wholeness for you to align yourself with the life you love.